High Fertility Rates in Third World Countries

B. The majority of the worldÆs population and the highest fertility rates are in the Third World.

A. Declining fertility rate averages worldwide and in Third World countries.

B. Bangladesh and Kenya fertility rate declines.

C. Literacy and birth control measures.

D. Impact on Consumers and Laborers.

E. Consumers in Third World countries; labor exploitation.

B. Challenges for the future for developed and Third World countries.

The worldÆs population continues to expand. However, it is doing so at a rate that is much slower than predicted by experts a few years ago. The United Nations has lowered is global population projection by one billion for the year 2050 from 9.8 billion to 8.9 billion (Wattenberg 1998). Unfortunately, most of the rapid growth in population that is still occurring is happening in underdeveloped or Third World nations. According to Sieff (1998), almost 98 percent of the annual increase reported in 1997 occurred in the 74 countries that make up the Third World. Further, of the current 6 billion people in the planet, 80 percent of them make their home in the Third World (Sieff, 1998). While global fertility rates are dropping, they are still highest in Thir

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ed they resort to methods of birth control. From many Third World countries the U.S. consumers benefit because of inexpensive sources of labor provided by the uneducated and poverty stricken. U.S. consumers enjoy a growth economy and cheaper consumer goods because of such foreign manufacturing. However, in Third World countries corrupt governments and horrific labor conditions witness little real improvement in the quality of daily life for inhabitants. Slavery runs rampant around the globe in Third World countries. Bonded children still are employed in India and Pakistan. In Thailand prostitution is thriving and in Lesotho indentured servitude is the norm for children. In the Sudan, Rosenthal (1999) argues that brutality and slavery are worse on slaves than during the period of U.S. slavery, ôSudan is an especially blatant case, in which raiders from the Muslim north send raiding parties south to seize people who are later sold for $50 a piece. They are worked hard, fed less and beaten more than were slaves in the American Southö (A1). The consumers meanwhile in Third World countries continue to suffer from corrupt government, debt crises, population problems, strained resources, polluted cities and economic crises. The
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